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Newspaper
Aurelia Sentinel
Location
Aurelia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
2
A weekly letter list for the Aurela post office shows a few names and ad dates. A Cemetery Association meeting is announced for Saturday October 10 at a local venue with expected attendance.
The M E church annual conference gathers in Sioux City Tuesday for a week with delegates to the General Conference to be elected. Rev D M Bond C Lockin P D Wine Price and C H Lockin attend from here while others will hear Bishop Fowler next Sunday. Five ministerial and five lay delegates will be chosen. O M Bond likely returns to Aurette for a third year.
Contracts were drawn yesterday between the hotel company and J J Dangers of Afurcus who will be proprietor of the new Aurelia hotel The lessee is an experienced hotel man who has spent much of his life in the business The building will be furnished up to date The owners believe they have found Mr Jungere to manage the property The source notes are expressed in a period news voice with emphasis on a new hotel venture and the expected managerial appointment.
Mayor Mummert officiated a private Tuesday ceremony for Robert Golf, 22, and Clara Bennett, 17, of Cherokee. The couple produced court documents and requested the mayor to marry them, who conducted the ceremony with due dignity.
J H Adaie reports a discovery at Frank Parrott’s farm north of town where a long unused well about fifty feet deep was uncovered last Monday while removing pipe clay. The find, made near an old well, may prompt further developments by Rockefeller next week.
A.J. Whinery received a letter from Geo. W. Benson in Yorkshire describing a slow harvest damaged by heavy rain and high winds. Benson notes English prices for American binders and mowers, mentions McCormick and Deering binders at £30 to £32 and mowing machines at £10 to £12, and reports his sister-in-law Mrs. Atkinson improving in health. He also cites widespread educational act discontent over church control in England.
Telegram notices arrive of several deaths. Mrs HR B Howell’s mother dies Sunday at home in Shullaburg Wits with funeral held Wednesday afternoon. McKinny’s brother chord Miter dies Sunday in Los Angeles California. Deven’s relative from Aurelia travels to face Angeles. Theron McBride’s mother Mrs Wo Lewis dies, causing telegrams to Webster City and Aurelia.
Local items recount residents traveling to Rochester Minnesota and Worthington Minnesota for family and work, visits from J F Sellers, Neva Batson leaving for Arkansas, a Maple Valley Nursery Farm improvement, and discussions of church events. Also noted are sales at Maple Valley and a fall egg and pattern sale, livestock updates, a sheep feeding plan, a possible 240 acre farm sale near Aurelia, a dance fundraiser, and regional agricultural and real estate notes spanning Aurelia and surrounding townships.
Public notice announces the appointment of an administratrix for the estate of Andrew B. Nestle deceased in Cherokee County Iowa. Creditors must file sworn claims with the probate court within the legal period and all debts owed must be paid to the administrator.
Old timetable notes from Winots Central R R describe multiple trains including Sioux City Limited and Chicago Express with irregular spellings. It notes stops and non stops for Sioux Falls district, passenger transfer details, and timing references for departure and return from Cherokee and Crain, signed by E W Hiv, agent.
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